Congratulations to those who have received the brown envelope already. However, this post relates to the ones who have been/on course to 'waiting for more than 6 months' for any communication with home office. I applies in the beginning of September and I have been told that the application is "under processing" and one generous customer service representative went beyond the call of duty to let me know that any decision is unlikely to be made before the end of 2014. Since approval for October and November has started to come through and approval after 2.5months drastically reduces I strongly believe I on course to join the "more than 6 months army".
Having read some posts from the guys 'waiting for more than 6 months' I understand nothing drastically change from Home office's point of view (typical responses: under processing, mandatory checks, need some more documents (which is the most objective communication you can get) even when you :
a. compliant to home office
b.write to local MP
c. write to home secretary
d. write to shadow home secretary
However, is it possible for us to put all the applicants who have been waiting for more than 6 months in timeline like thread with an added point like 'potential issue' to see if we can establish a pattern for applications taking more than 6 months? Can I request the unfortunate ones to write their timelines in this post with added 'Issue line'? If you have had any success after 6 months let us know if any steps helped you guys.
Finally, what is the point of is 6 month SLA breach for HO if they fail to reach a decision without any 'valid reason'? They might as well extend that to 2 years and remove cusotmer service/compliant department dealing with these quesries and save some more money.
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